tarpaper
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tarpaper
Example Sentences
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They combine flimsy-looking tarpaper with oversized driftwood because that is what is to hand.
From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2018
As a child, Mr. Mancini, 56, lived in a tarpaper shack in No Cash, a nearby station for the mine’s tramline, before his family moved to Keno.
From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2017
I have been writing replies to her students ever since, most recently to Minami Funakoshi, whose question had to do with my book “The Pine Barrens” and a couple of people in a tarpaper shanty.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 14, 2015
In the Sinclair version, Heroine Pamela Andrews is a prim, pretty, barefoot goat-girl, a devout Seventh Day Adventist who lives with her mother in a tarpaper shack in the California desert.
From Time Magazine Archive
Billy moved along the screen and reached a point where he could see a message freshly painted on the tarpaper wall.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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